Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:46:33 -0700 | From | Jonathan Corbet <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors |
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:23:09 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Sometimes a single patch is the result of multiple authors. As git only > can have one "author" of a patch, it is still good to properly give > credit to the other developers of a commit. To address this, document > the "Co-Developed-by:" tag which can be used to show other authors of > the patch. > > Note, these other authors must also provide a Signed-off-by: tag as it > is their work that is being submitted here.
So this seems good, and I'm seeing no objections. I can go ahead and apply it and ship it upward.
That said, I do think that there should maybe be a mention in submitting-patches.rst as well, since we have a fair amount of discussion of patch tags there. *Someday* we'll have nice organized documentation that doesn't scatter this stuff around, but that's not this day...
Thanks,
jon
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